Date posted March 15, 2010 | Posted by Michele Cullen | Filed under
Racing and BreedingMelbourne, Vic (March 15th, 2010) - Things just keep getting better for Windsor Park Stud’s Gr.1 shuttle stallion High Chaparral (IRE).Already credited this season with the Group 1 winners, So You Think and Monaco Consul, the Sadler’s Wells sire notched a third individual Group 1 winner on Saturday with the effort of Shoot Out in the AJC Randwick Guineas (1600m).
Trained by John Wallace, Shoot Out flew home late, to collar the Victoria Derby runner-up Viking Legend (Elvstroem) by three-quarters-of-a length.
Described by Wallace as the best horse he’s ever trained, Shoot Out was tightened and all but fell in the straight before he bullocked into the clear to quicken away from his rivals.
Shoot Out’s next asignment is the Group 1 Rosehill Guineas and then Wallace will decide if he embarks on a AJC Derby (2400m) campaign or have a crack at the Australian Jockey Club’s tough Group I Doncaster Hcp (1600m) back at Randwick.
Out of the Pentire mare Pentamerous, a winner at 1600 metres in Australia, has already produced the Group 3 winner Cassandara Shadow (by Johannesburg), the High Chaparral youngster is likely to head next to the Group 1 Rosehill Guineas on March 27.
Shoot Out has earned his owners Graham and Linda Huddy more than $500,000 - a massive return considering he cost the couple $15,000 from the Oaklands Stud (as agent) draft at the 2008 Magic Millions Gold Coast yearling sale. It also makes the yearling filly by Ferocity that Oaklands offered at the Magic Millions Gold Coast yearling sale earlier this year a good buy at $160,000.
If that wasn’t enough, the sire was also to the fore at stakes level in New Zealand on the same day. This time, however, the sires stakes winner would be derived from the fairer sex.
Already successful in the Listed Gore Guineas (1355m) in January, his daughter Chaparella turned heads with a fleet footed display in the New Zealand Bloodstock Insurance Stakes (1400m) at Wingatui.
Trained by Steven Prince and owned by Bonnie Syndicate, the 3YO filly won with 1-¼ lengths up her sleeve and with the win advanced her chance for the title as New Zealand Bloodstock’s ‘Southern Filly of the Year’.
Commencing Stud duties at Windsor Park Stud in 2005, High Chaparral has to date achieved 17 stakes winners worldwide.
